Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters, sentence 17

wǒ mā («waw MAH») is a casual «my mum» among kids, as in «wǒ mā shuō bù xíng» (my mum says no); his mum is āyí to you.

Who acts: mā, mum · What happens: be, shuō, xíng, say · To what, where: casual, bù, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mā, mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wǒ	wǒ	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mā	nmod:poss
2	mā	mā	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 casual	nsubj
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 waw	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 waw	punct
5	waw	waw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mā	appos
6	MAH	MAH	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 waw	appos
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 MAH	punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 MAH	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 casual	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 casual	det
11	casual	casual	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 mum	punct
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mum	nmod:poss
14	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 casual	appos
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 mum	punct
16	among	among	ADP	_	17 kids	case
17	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 mum	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 «	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 shuō	mark
20	in	in	ADP	_	19 as	fixed
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 shuō	punct
22	wǒ	wǒ	SCONJ	_	24 shuō	mark
23	mā	mā	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 shuō	nsubj
24	shuō	shuō	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 casual	advcl
25	bù	bù	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind Typo=Yes	24 shuō	obj
26	xíng	xíng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 bù	advcl
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 shuō	punct
28	(	(	PUNCT	_	31 says	punct
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mum	nmod:poss
30	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 says	nsubj
31	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 bù	parataxis
32	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	31 says	obj
33	)	)	PUNCT	_	31 says	punct
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 āyí	punct
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 mum	nmod:poss
36	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 āyí	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 āyí	cop
38	āyí	āyí	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 casual	conj
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 you	case
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 āyí	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 casual	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	wǒ's mā	a casual			tree rules
2	shuō in a quote	present	mā	bù			tree rules
3	xíng in a quote	gerund	mā not said here				tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present	my mum				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic
5	is	present	MAH's mum		you	āyí property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:chinese-street:009-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters.lesson:17.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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